Bulgars

The Bulgars (also Bolgars, Bulghars, Huno-Bulgars) were a semi-nomadic people who flourished in the Pontic Steppe and the Volga basin in the 7th century. Ethnically, the Bulgars were Oghur Turkic, with Scytho-Sarmatian and Sarmatian-Alan elements. There is a discussion whether these Sarmatian elements in the cultural characteristics of the Proto-Bulgars are based on Sarmatized Turks or Turkicized Sarmatians. They had also enveloped other ethnic groups by their migration westwards across the Eurasian steppe.